Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by ece on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:30PM
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2nd this Eufy robovac. I looked at the others, and since Eufy is Anker, went with them because of better service and battery life.
I don't think any of the others, including the 4x priced Roomba are any better at navigating my house. The sensors don't seem to work well on black floors, and there are places you will have to block so you don't have it getting stuck often. Once you've figured those two things out in your house, it's push button vacuuming with the $200 Eufy.
It has no app and setting up any sort of non-trivial schedule using the simple remote that comes with it is very hard.
It never manages to find its way back to the charging station, so you have to find it and carry it back yourself each time.
It has no 'memory' so it has to learn the space it's in each time you start it and it doesn't know what it has and hasn't cleaned.
Beyond that it just works. I don't bother with scheduling. I just turn it on when I'm on my way out the door every other day or so and just let it get to work.